Word: saddams
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...operation inside Israel's borders by Hizballah, which is financed by Iran and closely allied with radical Palestinian factions like Hamas, brings into focus the new dangerous balance of power in the region that has been taking shape since the Bush administration sent U.S. forces into Iraq to overthrow Saddam Hussein...
...member held in this hospital," said U.S. Air Force Major General Victor E. Renuart, Centcom's director of operations. Then, on about March 27 or 28, Mohammed Odeh Rehaief, a lawyer in Nasiriyah, approached some Marines just outside the downtown area and told them of a blond captive inside Saddam Hussein General Hospital...
...commandos, made up of U.S. Army Rangers, Navy SEALS, Marines and Air Force combat controllers, went hard into Saddam Hussein General Hospital. Armed with machine guns, they kicked down doors even as a hospital administrator tried to give them a master key, the doctors would later tell television reporters...
...perimeter the Rangers and Marines took fire, and returned it. But inside Saddam General, there was no resistance--and no one to resist. There were about 200 patients and a skeleton staff, but no soldiers, no militia. The commandos did not know that, their officers would later say, and they treated their assault on the hospital as if it was still being used as a hiding place for heavily armed Iraqi fighters--to do anything else would have been foolish. The commandos shouted that they wanted to know where to find Jessica Lynch, and one of the doctors told them...
...Where is Jessica Lynch? Where is Jessica Lynch?" Inside her room, Jessi cowered under her covers. What if it was Saddam's people, come to get her again? It didn't matter that the words were in English; so many Iraqis spoke English. "Oh, God," Jessi thought, "don't let it be them." She could not see the door clearly because of the curtain. She lay, her good hand clutching the sheet to her chin, and refused to answer. There was some light in the room, enough to see a man's form as he walked in. And then, just...